Sniper Detectors Coming to America’s Heartland
Gunshots ring out in the dead of night, and not a single person reports it. Yet police know exactly where the shots came from, even before they arrive on the scene. It sounds like...
Category: Storm Chasers
Hong Kong orders chicken cull as bird flu alert raised
Hong Kong is culling 17,000 chickens after three birds were confirmed to have died from the deadly H5N1 bird flu strain in the past week. The government has banned imports and the sale of...
U.S. Bio-Security Officials Sound Warning After Scientists Create Deadly New Strain of Bird Flu
The U.S. government is sounding the alarm after reports that Dutch scientists have created a highly-contagious and deadly airborne strain of bird flu that is potentially capable of killing millions, The Independent reported Tuesday....
Mexican scientists finger volcanoes as a cause of Mayas’ collapse
A just completed six year long study of the Maya city of Palenque found evidence that the city may have been destroyed by superheated volcanic gases and covered with ash. Acid rain caused by...
GLOBAL CLIMATE RISK INDEX 2012
Summary As in previous years, the Global Climate Risk Index 2012 analyses to what extent countries have been affected by the impacts of weather-related loss events (storms, floods, heat waves etc.). The most recent...
Discovery of Cancer Vaccine
Researchers said the vaccine could be ready in as little as three years after promising trial results. The vaccine works by training the immune system to correctly identify cancer cells based on their sugar structures – and then...
record-breaking year for disasters
(CNN) — From the tsunami in Japan to famine in East Africa to the deadly tornado outbreaks in the United States, 2011 has been a historic year for natural disasters. A dozen weather-related disasters...
Mysterious Lightning ‘Sprites’ Caught in High-Speed, 3D Video
Mysterious “sprites” and “elves” dance high in the Earth’s atmosphere — but these aren’t mythical creatures, they’re disks, globes and tendrils of light caused by lightning. Now scientists for the first time have 3D images...
Gene synthesis raises bioweapon threat
(CBS/AP) GENEVA – New gene assembly technology that offers great benefits for scientific research could also be used by terrorists to create biological weapons, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton warned Wednesday. The...
Most Smartphones Will Track You
Cell phone surveillance is all fun and marketing until they start following you — and we’re all being followed to one degree or another by our fancy smartphones. Tracking is an intrinsic feature of...
